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1003 pages. Name index. Many dozens of black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos. Provides a history of the Alberta districts of Blindman River, Bluff Centre, Harmonier, Iola, Lavesta, Montgreenar, Pineville, Riverview, Western Sunset and Willesden Green. Documents the history of the land sections and the families who occupied them. Includes sections on cattle and horse brands, sawmills, and cowboys. Covers the years 1900-1973. Gift greetings upon first blank leaf otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent local history and genealogical reference. Krotki (2) 544. Strathern 3089. Book
156 pages. Index. Excellent black and white photos. Nice colour map entitled "Forest Distribution in Trent River Watershed" (34"x36") stored in pocket inside back board. Also present is a colour map entitled "Crown Timber Lands 1912" which covers the same geography and measures 21"x20". Final item in pocket is a chart showing "Classification of Land, Trent Watershed, Ont. 1912". Gilt lettering upon backstrip and front board. Initials upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Binding sound. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
22 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Faint label removal patch on first page. A sound copy. Book
36" x 25.5". Indicates 25 foot contours, water bodies, roads, rail lines, structures, etc. Light wear. Book
3 vols. (328, 292, 310 p.) Hardcover Very good condition, in later maroon cloth Howes A - 352
Book is in excellent condition in black cloth with gilt at spine, handsome map endpapers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 369 pages, heavily illustrated with maps, b&w photos of tools, persons, sites, line drawings.
48 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad; A Railroad Plans for Tomorrow - operating after the war; Do You Know These Railroads?; New York Central 4-8-2; Main Line of the Narrow Gauge - Rio Grande three-foot rails over Cumbres Pass, with super photo centerfold of a Denver & Rio Grande Western train beginning its run from Alamosa to Durango; Beyond Ellicott's Mills - oldest main line sees few passenger trains but its two tracks shorten B&O freight route 15 miles; Yugoslav Railroads - Pathway to the Orient; Great full-page ad for Rock Island Lines; Case History with which Attorney Louis F. Meyer Jr. illustrates an important railroad legal point. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
42 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Bombs Away - what railroads do when enemy planes attack their plant and trains; Crystal River & San Juan - a marble railroad in the Colorado Rockies; What the Signals Say - detailed illustrated article on the development of railroad signals; Westbound Freight - a watercolor by Kent Day Coes; The Railroads of Bethlehem - this Pennsylvania city boasts six steam railroads - includes colour map; Tickets for Locomotive Fuel - with colour photos; C&O Brothers - locomotive photos and specifications; In the Army Now - old narrow-gauge engines don't escape the draft; Locomotive Building Program; The Man in the Tower. Average wear and soiling. Small date stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Saga of the "400" - it was just an ordinary Pacific which started the high-speed Chicago-Twin Cities service; Dulith, Missabe & Iron Range - in the land of short, stubby cars and long, heavy trains; Empire State Express - Seventeen million miles are credited to New York Central crack train - centerfold photo of this train at the height of her glory; The Traveling Salesman - Railroad glimpses from a thumbworn diary recording 12 years of covering the West by train, by Victor H. White; C&O 4-4-2; Capital Cities Route - Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac is funnel for north and south Atlantic Seaboard traffic; A Vermont Short Line - Montepelier & Wells River Railroad transports heavy granite loads from the Barre & Chelsea to the Boston & Maine; Trains' Map of Vermont Railroads. Average soiling and wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Railroad Vacations - suggestions for your summer trip - choice routes for scenic and rail interest; Gone From Our Town - Social life of village once centered around the station, but now the railroad's gone, by Vince Edwards; Fast Freight Line - Western Maryland Railway, rooted at the mines in West Virginia, is important as an Eastern trade trunk; Illinois Central Portfolio - Eight old engines and a touch of the flavlor of modern power from a great North-South route; SP Cab-In-Front; Norfolk & Western's Spring Cleaning - photos of manual labour; Groucho, Harpo & Rio Chico RR - A Reel Railway in which the Marx Brothers take over the Sierra RR. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
52 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Pennsylvania's Mountain Types; The Man in the Tower; Grand Central Station - super 12-page photo-illustrated article; Via Burlington - Wartime Freight - climb to the black cusions in the caboose of First 67 and witness some real train handling; Car Retarders - They speed up switching by controlling cars from a central point; Pictorial Presentations - B&M transfer point, SP in the Siskyous, Old New York & Harlem locomotive, World's sharpest curve, NYNH&H, Western Pacific - Norfolk & Western; Lumber Railroad - The Michigan-California Lumber Company's 45-mile railroad northeast of Placerville - with photos of their aerial lumber ferry; Photos of the world's longest chute? - 3,000 foot drop to the South Fork, American River. Railroad Ups and Downs; They Look Alike - Forney and a Fairlie. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
46 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC replaces Busy Switches - new slip switches at Harmon, N.Y.; The Rio Grande - General Palmer's little narrow gauge road of the Colorado mountains grew into one of America's most important 'bridge' systems; Driving Gear for Turbine Locomotives - Pennsylvania Railroad's experimental unit has uniform torque, fully balanced drive wheels, high efficiency at speed; new locomotive; Built in Roanoke - Norfolk & Western has been building most of its locomotives at its Roanoke Shops; Railroad Ticket Man - What does the passenger look like to the man on the other side of the ticket window?; Tall Stacked Old Timers - Three gems from a leading locomotive photo collection; Chicago Station Gets New Shed - Illinois Central Rebuilds - Illinois Central tears down old high arch and builds slotted roof. Average wear. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Magazine
48 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC West Side Freight Line - a photo story on the only all-rail freight route into Manhattan; Haunted Roundhouse - Hudson River roundhouse is a memory of the past; Recent 4-8-4's - specifications; Water Holes for Iron Horses - from L&N Magazine; The Man in the Tower; D&RGW in Eagle River Canyon - super centerfold photo; Uruapan Express; Two Early Trains - old-time photos; Great Britain's Garratt Locomotives; Women Railroaders. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Milwaukee Electrification - CMStP&P electric locomotives help each other climb the Rockies and the Cascades; Varnish Vignettes - Passing thoughts, railroads and travel; Loss- $5,500 /day - railroad companies often lose money but must maintain their service - New Haven case story; Southern Pacific old-timers at Sacramento; Electricity powers trains in Chicago; One-Man Railroad in Rhode Island - 5.6-mile Wood River Branch Railroad is the link between Hope Valley and the New Haven; ; Shay Locomotives - Lima's best seller is an out-puller too! - Shays pull extra heavy loads on sharp curves, steep grades; Engine "999"; Blue Ridge Railway - with aspirations of a thorough line nipped by the Civil War, BR Ry. becomes traffic link; Pennsylvania's "The Jeffersonian" - new fast coach train between St. Louis and the East follows success of Trail Blazer; Hiawathas at New Lisbon - when four steam-powered streamliners meet at a single point there's bount to be real activity. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Nine prize-winning photos from Railroadians' salon; The 6:57 - The Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast; Silverton Branch - Denver & Rio Grande Western's most remote train squeeze up the gorge of Rio de Las Animas Perdidas twice a week; World's Biggest (in 1883) - El Gobernador - Nineteenth-century Mastodon; The NYO&W - built new merchandise traffic to replace collapsed hard-coal trade; The Track Circuit - this simple electrical detector tells when a train is on the track, and is used in all types of signaling; Below the Mason & Dixon Line - Medium-sized railroads abound in the south; Bill Moore's Trip - aa first-class railroad vacation trip - across Canada on Canadian Pacific is the first lap; The Ubiquitous Rock Island - a photo spread. Average wear and soiling. Small address stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: East Broad Top - narrow gauge coal hauler is prospering considering its size - it meets highway competition; George M. Pullman - He Improved the existing sleeper, brought comfort to the rails; D&H 4-6-6-4; Penn-Reading Seashore - Once rival systems in southern New Jersey, P-RS now gives efficient cooperative services - maps, article and many photos; Glamor Girl - Avis Lobdell put the oomph in Union Pacific's Challenger service and kept traffic on the rails; Port Isabel Branch - Once the narrow gauge Rio Grande Railroad, now an important tidewater connection for MoPac; The Overnighter - Pere Marquette fast freight service keeps high polish on the Detroit-Chicago rails; Alameda Belt Line - California's island city is important rail-water terminal; Eastbay Railroading - suburban empire once had rapid transit to every district; Letters from readers. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: What's new in railroading?; The trains that cost too much - Western Maryland; I rode the 'big blow' (gas turbine 54 of Union Pacific); Erie's mighty Kinzua - a steel viaduct over 2000 feet long and 300 feet high erected in only four months!; Hiawatha 4-6-4s; The Western Pacific Story - 1 - a railroad through the Feather River Canyon; Famous steam locomotive - 17; and more. One inch opening at base of cover-fold. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Book
Features: What an airport manager thinks of railraoding; Pennsy's new juice jacks; new photos; The GG-I's and the P5a's: on an uneasy throne?; Meet Harry Congdon, Railroad Vice-President; Photo entitle: 336, 250 pounds of tractive effort; an old whistle-listener takes the president of the Canadian National to task for the noises his diesels make; Little Pacifics in Canada... before the diesel showed up; Chilling stories from old-timers of the Current River Railroad; and more. Averge wear. Small date stamp upon front cover. Book
66 pages. Features: 12 Hours with 6009 - watch this NYC engine as it is readied for the run, then ride the cab for the 403 fleeting miles - great photos and write-up; Burlington Route relocates 13.4 miles of line as Federal Government constructs new dam on the Big Horn River in Wyoming - article and photos; To Alaska Someday - The Great Pacific Eastern - a structly rural steam and diesel road in British Columbia - excellent photos, maps and article; Photo Section includes wonderful shot of sunbeams inside the concourse of Grand Central Station, New York, centerfold photo of a Union Pacific freight climbing Sherman Hill, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming - a 4-8-8-4 'Big Boy'; Millions for Signals - "Either slow down your streamliners or intall more signals", says Interstate Commerce Commission - long article with photos; The Morristown & Erie Railroad - article and photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Travel - Family Style - many wonderful photos of a family traveling by rail; Route of the Flying Saucers - The New York and Erie Railroad - long article with photos and map; Centerfold map shows hundreds of rail vaction routes all over the U.S.; Photo Section; Narrow-Gauge Vacation - How to ride the last of Colorado's three-foot-gauge passenger trains - article with map and photos; Details of some planned rail trips; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: The Hibiscus & Heliconia Short Line Railroad on Hawaii - article with photos; The Rail Detector Car Identifies Faulty Rails - article with photos; Staten Island Rapid Transit - a B&O Subsidiary - article with photos and map; Photo Section including wonderful centerfold photo of a Western Maryland 4-6-6-4 on a curve west of Cumberland, Md.; Behind the Statistical Nightmares of the Pennsylvania Railroad's first 100 years - a story of a transport colossus - article with photos; Riding the "Dixie Line" NC&StL from Nashville to Atlanta; Photos of immense locomotives in the process of being scrapped; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Colorado photo contest winners; What's Our 'Best' Railroad?; Highballing B&O Duplex-Drive; Extra 4501 South; Europe - passenger car trends; Railroad News Photos; Pennsy juice news; Steam News Photos; Superb two-page photo of 'where the wheel meets the rail'; 86 mph behind a 4-4-4-4 - how B&O burned the ballast in 1937; A Tale of Two Tunnels - 1 - The story of the St. Clair and Detroit River Tunnels - includes great old diagrams of how to drill a tunnel; Extra 4501 South - a most unlikely train movement; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Engine that made Penn Station Possible - the DD1 - long article with illustrations including colour painted centerfold; Your choice - Two-Storey Santa Fe Streamliners or Pennsy's ankle-view train, both built by Budd; Railway news photos; Railroads out of Rio - Brazil's frantic search for modernism has rudely booted the locomotive out of public affection - article with photos; Great photo section; Steam in Indian Summer - 5 - Steam - it fares better in the flatlands; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Super 16 illustrated article on Maine's biggest two-footer - The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes; The strangest piece of coal-carrying equipment on the U.S. rails today - Southern Railway No. 100; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Photos of Washout in the West - Colorado's South Platte River rampaged in June; That All-American Look - an ALCO DH-643 diesel hydraulic; Strange Train for a GG1; The Accident that Couldn't Happen - on September 25, 1964 the Rock Island's lift bridge across the Des Plaines River at Joliet Ill was rendered inoperative by a broken pinion gear while the bridge was in a raised position - this led to a collission at 52 mph; Article - America's unremarked and reluctant but quite splendid innkeepers - the railroads; Nice colour photo EMD centerfold; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. Bottom five inches of cover fold open. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Camelback bows out; The David and Goliath story of Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Hell Gate Bridge - across the East River in New York City; Photo Section; When Steam ruled the Delaware & Hudson; My 34 years on a short line - George Baggett; Lady with a Past - a Colorado 10 wheeler has out-lived the Mallets and 4-8-4s of our time; Why Carnivals are moving by rail; and more. Average wear. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book